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“Every Good Friday, since 1980, I film the ceremonial of the Stations of the Cross of the Passion of Christ in Burzet, in an isolated village in the Ardèche, where the inhabitants, for seven centuries, dress up to celebrate and perpetuate this religious rite. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Burzet’s 2021 Passion of Christ Ceremonial has been canceled. To compensate for this cancellation, I tried an experiment…” Says Alain Paucard of the film: “Courant reworks the images, passing from realism to a sort of expressionism which, enlarging the line, warms it.”